The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you’re looking for in order to find it. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don’t seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
The most moving parts of ‘Real American’ come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
